James Yoxall
Sir James Henry Yoxall (15 July 1857 – 2 February 1925) was a British Liberal Party politician and trade unionist. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham West from 1895 to 1918. He was General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers from 1892 to 1924. He was knighted in 1909.
Background
Yoxall was the eldest son of Henry Houghton Yoxall and Elizabeth Smallwood of
Westminster Training College. In 1886, he married Elizabeth Coles. The couple had one son, Harry Yoxall, and two daughters.[1]
Professional career
Yoxall qualified as a certificated teacher at
Westminster Training College in 1878. He was President of the National Union of Teachers in 1891 before taking over as General Secretary. He served as Royal Commissioner on Secondary Education from 1894–95. He was also the Editor of The Schoolmaster from 1909 to 1924, and was a Member of the Committee on Modern Language Teaching from 1916 to 1918. He was awarded with an Honorary MA by the University of Cambridge in 1899 and an Honorary MA by Oxford in 1907. He was also an Officier d’Académie, France.[2]
Political career
Yoxall was Liberal candidate for the
Justice of the Peace
.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by James Yoxall
- Works by James Yoxall at Project Gutenberg
- Works by James Henry Yoxall at Faded Page (Canada)
References
- ^ ‘YOXALL, Sir James Henry’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 10 Jan 2014
- ^ "YOXALL, Sir James Henry", Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 10 Jan 2014
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918, Craig, F. W. S.
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